[resource-net] Meeting AG '21C Art & Digital Culture' -15 June @Supermarkt

[Erika .]

Hey dear everybody,

Chris, Thanks for the letter! Great job!!
UWA hi-five!!
Looking forward to see you and many more members in the next meeting!!
Lg
I wish a nice weekend for everyone!!
Erikah


Rachel Uwa <rachel.uwa at gmail.com> schrieb am Fr. 2. Juni 2017 um 13:01:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> congrats on your first meeting!
> Sorry I wasn't able to be there. I've grown to dislike group meetings and
> decision-making because it's so difficult to
> get people to get past discussions and actually DO SOMETHING! Looking at
> the list of people in attendance here though
> I think all of you are definitely DOers and probably feel the same way I
> do. Lol. Anyway, will try and make
> the next meeting if I can. Just wanted to send hi-fives and congratulations
> for getting this initiative off the ground!
> It's been a long time coming!
>
> Warmly,
> Rachel
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:32 PM, <cdelutz at artlaboratory-berlin.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello Colleagues,
> > On 22 May the Koalition der freie Szene (KFS) Plenum approved a new
> > working group: 21 Century art & Digital Culture, with the purpose of
> > improving the situation for New Media and Hybrid arts in Berlin (see more
> > below). We had our first official meeting as an AG (working group)  on 29
> > May (also see below)
> >
> > The founding members include: Tatiana Bazzichelli, Ela Kagel, Christian
> de
> > Lutz, Lieke Ploeger, Paolo Podrescu, Rüdiger Sakrowksi, Erika Siekstelyte
> > a.o.
> > On 15 June, 2017 at 6PM we invite you to our next meeting at Supermarkt,
> > Mehringplatz 9, 10969 Berlin  (Ubhf Hallesches Tor)
> >
> > On the Agenda will be:
> >    -  a discussion of a position paper for the Berlin Senat - content,
> > research and division of tasks
> >    - artistic research: the importance for artist and curators working
> > with technology and science and the forthcoming paper from KFS and the
> > Senat Office for Culture and Europe
> >
> >    - Other AGs (Working groups) within the KFS, and possible synergies
> >    - Future plans/ projects
> >    - Other business
> >
> >
> > About Us/ Working Group 21st Century Art & Digital Culture within the
> > Koalition der Freie Szene
> >
> > Mission Statement:    Working Group 21st Century Art & Digital Culture
> > We are artists, curators and spaces in Berlin who are active in diverse
> > cultural manifestations relating to new technologies and their greater
> > social, political and cultural effects in the 21st century. Our work
> ranges
> > from digital art (net.art, software art, hardware hacking, etc) to
> > experimental electronic music (e.g. noise, glitch, drone), Science-Art
> and
> > BioArt, investigations into digital and 'post-digital' culture: the open
> > source  and DIY movements, data protection, digital surveillance and
> civil
> > and human rights issues relating to new technologies, as well as the use
> of
> > new technologies in performing arts, music, visual arts and especially in
> > inter-disciplinary (Spartenübergreifende) and Hybrid forms.
> > What ties this diverse, inter- and trans-disciplinary group together is a
> > critical, knowledge-based approach to new technologies. We are united by
> a
> > process of working with science and technologies as media to be examined,
> > demystified and utilized for creative production with special attention
> to
> > politische Bildung and the social good. Our use of new technologies as a
> > starting point separates us from our original disciplines (Fine arts,
> > music, performing arts) but binds us across our fields (Sparten).
> > ============================================================
> >
> > Minutes of the MEETING: Monday 29th May 18:00 Supermarkt
> >    - Present: Ela Kagel, Chris de Lutz, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Paolo
> > Podrescu, Lieke Ploeger, Thomas Heidtmann, Lucy Patterson, Rüdiger
> > Sakrowksi, Erika Siekstelyte
> >
> >    - We will draft an outline for the position paper to be discussed in
> > the next meeting (see above)
> >
> >    - We will research into existing position papers to find out what
> > format / outline could work best
> >
> >    - We will set up a mailinglist for the group (Lieke will look into
> > possibility of using the OKFN instance of discourse)
> >
> > Tentative outline for a position paper (From Meeting on Monday 29 May,
> > 2017 @ Supermarkt):
> >
> >    - Call for a more transparent jury- and decision-making process for
> > digital art funding
> >
> >    - Raise awareness of the importance of digital art & culture for
> Berlin
> > (also historically)
> >
> >    - Developing tactics & strategies in order to strengthen the digital
> > arts scene at a political level
> >
> >    - Informing cultural policy makers about the needs and demands of the
> > cultural producers of this scene
> >
> >    - Include a list of proposed measures to improve the situation (for
> > example having our field recognised as a specific category to fund,
> > including a representative in the Sprecherkreis of the Koalition der
> Freie
> > Szene)
> >
> >    - Refer to text from the Koalitionsvereinbarung ("Zur Erprobung
> > innovativer Formate mit digitalen Technologien wird die Koalition einen
> > Innovationsfonds für Projekte der Einrichtungen und der Freien Szene
> > etablieren.") and detail what this should involve from our perspective
> >  ============================================================
> > We welcome new members and interested colleagues from the community. If
> > you have questions feel free to contact me.
> > Christian de Lutz
> >
> >
> > Christian de Lutz
> > ARTLABORATORYBERLIN
> > Prinzenallee 34
> > 13359 Berlin
> >
> > office/ post address:
> > Nostitzstrasse 12
> > 10961 Berlin
> > www.artlaboratory-berlin.org
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